Bullet Pointed Updates of Varying Importance

Have been on the road the last five weeks, traveling and doing signings and appearances, and also some family stuff. Home this week but ignoring all email (in truth, pretty much ignoring everything but Twitter) so that I can work on manuscript reviews, Lifetimer shipments, and an introduction for a very patient Bryan Killian. Also finishing up my X-FILES contribution and a new collaboration with J.F. Gonzalez code-named THE BIBLE (should be done this week or next). A few things of note:

*Readers interested in this year’s Maelstrom set should start setting money aside.

*Look for a major book-related announcement on or around August 18th. Will probably first appear in Publisher’s Lunch.

*Talking to some folks I met in Atlanta about a podcast. More on that in the months to come.

*Jonathan Janz, one of my favorites among this new crop of younger horror writers, wrote this nice essay about me and Jack Ketchum.

*My partner and fellow horror author Mary SanGiovanni recently appeared on Armand Rosmilia’s podcast, and in addition to talking about her new novel CHAOS, she revealed (for what I believe is the first time in public) that we recently completed our first collaboration. Details later on where that story will be appearing.

*Recently finished and turned in to various publishers: new novel THE LOST LEVEL, new Levi novel THE LAST OF THE ALBATWITCHES (which comprises the novellas THE WITCHING TREE and THE LAST OF THE ALBATWITCHES), two new short stories (one of which is a vampire tale and the other of which is the collaboration with Mary mentioned above), and a lengthy essay on the impact of Jack Ketchum’s THE GIRL NEXT DOOR.

And that’s it. Back to work I go. If you miss me, I’ve been Blogging daily here.